Something's off about this magical girl.

Chapter 25 Slaying!

Let's rewind a moment.

After only a brief moment of surprise, Gu Bai understood the situation.

Turning around and seeing the situation Tao Zhuo was facing, he no longer hesitated. The dark aura was gathering and solidifying as his five fingers clasped together.

He raised his head, glanced at the still writhing, pale mass above him, and without lingering, swung his sword horizontally.

The sword energy was silent.

There was no piercing sound of wind breaking, no earth-shattering roar, and the raindrops made no unusual noise.

A restrained, dark sword light quietly swept across the rain, across the gray stone walls, and across all the pale, huddled armor plates.

Then, time seemed to stand still for a moment.

Immediately afterwards, the overwhelming number of strange beasts, like marionettes with their strings cut, fell down with a whoosh.

Like old wallpaper roughly ripped from a wall, they peeled and crumbled in mid-air. Slamming onto the stone slabs, they eventually turned into countless pools of pale, viscous fluid. Most unusually, perhaps due to their sheer number, these beasts did not exhibit the previously observed 'immortality'.

Clean, efficient, and merciless sweeping.

Opening her eyes, Tao Zhuo was naturally stunned by what she saw.

She pointed incredulously at the ground, then turned to look at Gu Bai, who was holding the sword. She opened her mouth as if she had countless questions to ask.

"...Magical Girl Gu Bai?"

She managed to squeeze out those five words, which should have been a compliment, but she didn't know where to put them.

Before Gu Bai could even respond to this ridiculous nickname...

The ground suddenly shook.

The vibrations were dull and continuous, with a frequency a full order of magnitude stronger than before.

Tao Zhuo felt a little dizzy. She leaned against the slippery stone wall and tried to contact Dong Chun through the magic bridge, but there was no response. It seemed that the connection with Dong Chun had been lost.

"It's not over yet, don't move."

Gu Bai's voice came from the side, with the same tone—unhurried and composed.

With one arm around her lower back and the other under her legs, he held her securely in his arms in a perfect princess carry.

The next instant, a corner of the stone wall was broken open.

A strange beast appeared, about four or five meters in size, with a dark bronze shell and irregular rust patterns on its surface, like metal that had been repeatedly heated and cooled. It had a heavy and dense texture. It crawled out of the collapsed valley wall and faced Gu Bai.

"Aww!"

Sensing something, before taking any action, those small, dim compound eyes were already fixed on the figure at the gap, and they let out a howl.

Gu Bai picked up Tao Zhuo with one hand, and with his free right hand, a black sword materialized, which he then slashed with.

A casual, natural attack.

Just like before, the dark aura spread along the blade, and the tip of the sword traced an ordinary arc. The roar of the gray bronze beast stopped abruptly the moment the sword energy arrived, splitting in the middle and then shattering.

As for where to stay.

When she was put down, Tao Zhuo looked dazed, and she wiped her eyes.

Wait, is it possible to instantly kill a Gray Bronze level enemy from this distance?

I bit my lip again, and it hurts!

But I didn't say anything more.

I'll play support for now, silently extending the tendrils of my perception magic, barely managing to stay afloat in the chaotic magical environment.

The next second, she felt a deeper tremor that was even stronger than before!

"Teacher, teacher, there's something even bigger, down below!"

"Okay, behave yourself. Can you turn on the rain-shielding magic? You're going to get soaked to the bone. If we keep being this intimate, I might never be able to pass my teacher's qualification exam."

"Tsk." Tao Zhu blushed and her cheeks puffed out, but now she knew who the main force was, and silently pushed away the barrier magic.

Hey, why is the process of expanding the barrier so easy this time? Could it be...?

boom!

Before Tao Zhuo could think any further, a loud bang was heard.

The rocks and soil at the bottom of the valley surged and churned, and the entire patch of night-blooming cereus, roots and all, was uprooted. The strange beast emerged from the top, its body wider, and its four thick forelimbs stomped on the muddy ground, causing the valley floor to tremble once more.

The star marks on Tao Zhuo's body flickered for a moment, as if her magic was being suppressed. She lowered her head and carefully examined the newly appeared beast through the rain.

silver.

This is a silver-level beast.

Its size was so large that it covered half of the outline of the notch, and its shell was a matte silver that only comes with the polishing of time.

Stopped at the bottom of the valley, it didn't rush to come up, but instead focused its large, round compound eyes on the two people on the wall, as if confirming something.

The pressure seeped into the air, pushing the sound of the rain further away, leaving only that low-frequency, continuous resonance, pressing in from all directions at once.

The world became quiet.

Tao Zhuo slowed her breathing, extended her magical tentacles, touched the oppressive magical power emanating from the silver beast, and immediately withdrew them, her fingers subtly tightening.

"Teacher." She knew she couldn't handle a beast of this magnitude, and her voice was much softer than usual. "Let's escape, just to protect our students..."

"We don't need that."

"No, no, um, what I mean is, even among the Five-Star Magical Girls, a group fight is still necessary—"

"Alright, shut up."

Gu Bai took a step forward.

Tao Zhuo's words caught in her throat, and she didn't continue.

The next second, the silver beast finally moved.

Its massive body leaped from the bottom of the cliff, its enormous size generating a violent shockwave. The valley shook violently the moment it landed.

It arrived with the force of a heavy armored vehicle crashing at high speed, crushing everything in its path!

Gu Bai stood still, not giving the other party another chance to act.

Raise the ink sword.

Two simple slashes, one horizontal and one vertical.

A jet-black cross-shaped sword aura shot out from the blade.

As before, without much fanfare, it effortlessly passed right through the head of the charging silver beast.

It was as if we were in an empty place.

The silver beast, which was charging wildly, suddenly stopped.

It was just a brief pause.

Then, starting from its front, a very fine cross-shaped crack appeared on its indestructible silver-white carapace.

"Click."

This faint cracking sound became the beginning of the collapse. Within a second, the cracks spread wildly, crawling across its head, body, and limbs.

Finally, under Tao Zhuo's watchful gaze, the mountain-sized silver-level beast shattered into a pile of fine silvery-white debris with a whoosh.

The valley was once again enveloped in the sound of rain.

Gu Bai dispersed the sword, turned around, and walked towards Tao Zhuo, muttering in confusion, "Strange, this color usually can't be used to instantly kill..."

Tao Zhuo stood still.

She didn't know what to say anymore, she just kept staring at the direction Gu Bai was walking back, for a long time, before finally taking a breath and squeezing out a hoarse sentence:

"Is the teacher actually a sword-wielding magical girl in disguise?"

"Am I a woman?" Gu Bai shrugged.

Silver beads still clung to the corners of Tao Zhuo's eyes; she forgot to wipe them away, letting them mingle with the rainwater. Her throat tightened.

"I don't care... Teacher, you kept this from me so badly!"

"A swap magic talisman! I just exchanged it for all the volunteer points I accumulated since enrolling in Qixin Academy. Do you know how precious it is, teacher? It's for me to use when I encounter super terrifying monsters and can't defeat them!"

"I'll return one to you when I get back."

"real?"

"It's fake, how could I have such a thing?"

"Bad teachers, please stop toying with your students' innocent minds!"

"Okay~"

Gu Bai responded, paused for a moment, and then his gaze fell on the corner of Tao Zhuo's eyes:

"What, were you scared and crying just now? To be honest, I didn't expect you to have this kind of role-playing ability..."

And they will use it.

All I can say is that Gu Bai really didn't expect this girl's sense of responsibility to be more than just talk.

Tao Zhuo turned her face away: "What magical girl cries? It's just raining!"

"Aspiring magical girl." Gu Bai patted Tao Zhuo's head.

The girl turned her head sharply again, wiped her eyes with her sleeve, took a deep breath, and felt the raindrops hitting her face. The cold raindrops helped her suppress the emotions that were about to get out of control.

When she turned back, she had composed herself, her eyes still bright, and she raised her right fist, five star-shaped marks flashing beneath it.

"Hmph, what 'quasi-magical girl'? I'm already a full-fledged magical girl! I'm just waiting to go back to the academy to sign my contract!"

"This works for star-level upgrades? Amazing!"

"In short, the teacher owes me a favor, and I'll have to repay it later!"

"Anytime is fine—"

—Boom! B ...

Just as the two were chatting, a violent tremor occurred.